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Anonymous wrote:OP, don't know if you are wed to Vienna. I can tell you about our school Shrevewood Elementary in Falls Church. We will have a local level IV next school year. This is new to our school, but I can tell you from the work of the PTA and the Principal this is going to be a great program at our school.
Good luck on your decision.

Won't that gut the new AAP program at Lemon Road? I'd be worried about having a critical mass at either school. How do you decide where to go? It's not like either has a track record like Louise Archer.

I thought that the goal was to have local level IV at all schools. I wish our base school had that choice.

That's Pat Hynes's goal. It's not universally shared.

If the new AAP center at Lemon Road only draws from Lemon Road, Westgate and Shrevewood, it's going to be smaller if Shrevewood parents keep their kids in LLIV.

Isn't Westgate also getting LLIV this year? Between the 2, it pretty much assures that there won't be a large class at LR.

FCPS has screwed us yet again. They are setting Lemon Road AAP up to be a failure before it ever has a chance to get off the ground.

Sorry. Stenwood should move from Westbriar to Lemon Road. Westbriar is already too crowded.

They should move Stenwood out of LA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, don't know if you are wed to Vienna. I can tell you about our school Shrevewood Elementary in Falls Church. We will have a local level IV next school year. This is new to our school, but I can tell you from the work of the PTA and the Principal this is going to be a great program at our school.
Good luck on your decision.

Won't that gut the new AAP program at Lemon Road? I'd be worried about having a critical mass at either school. How do you decide where to go? It's not like either has a track record like Louise Archer.

I thought that the goal was to have local level IV at all schools. I wish our base school had that choice.

That's Pat Hynes's goal. It's not universally shared.

If the new AAP center at Lemon Road only draws from Lemon Road, Westgate and Shrevewood, it's going to be smaller if Shrevewood parents keep their kids in LLIV.

Isn't Westgate also getting LLIV this year? Between the 2, it pretty much assures that there won't be a large class at LR.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, don't know if you are wed to Vienna. I can tell you about our school Shrevewood Elementary in Falls Church. We will have a local level IV next school year. This is new to our school, but I can tell you from the work of the PTA and the Principal this is going to be a great program at our school.
Good luck on your decision.

Won't that gut the new AAP program at Lemon Road? I'd be worried about having a critical mass at either school. How do you decide where to go? It's not like either has a track record like Louise Archer.

I thought that the goal was to have local level IV at all schools. I wish our base school had that choice.

That's Pat Hynes's goal. It's not universally shared.

If the new AAP center at Lemon Road only draws from Lemon Road, Westgate and Shrevewood, it's going to be smaller if Shrevewood parents keep their kids in LLIV.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone whose kid was in general ed at Louise Archer and felt like they were second-class citizens. They ended up moving and liking their non-AAP school better.

Every family's experience is different, but I can say that in sixth grade at Archer, there is a big effort to help the whole sixth grade bonds as a group. The sixth grade camping trip in the fall is designed to do just that - mix the kids so they get to know each other no matter whether they are AAP or general ed. And all sixth graders are required to participate in the sixth grade musical, which takes up a lot of the fall and winter, and they also bond over that. My kid is in AAP but knows tons of kids in general ed and they share many a joke based on those experiences they have had as a group. I spend a lot of time in the school volunteering, etc., and have a good impression that certainly in sixth grade there is a lot of interaction between AAP and general ed students, and that the teachers would not tolerate any "us versus them" talk from kids, at all. So that is a perspective from sixth grade AAP. And in our other years there, I didn't sense any big divide, and my child didn't ever mention it.

So, OP, when it comes to making choices -- which are still a few years off for you-- remember that each school's culture is different, each grade can be different from other grades in a school in terms of "us versus them" or not, and you need to make the best choice depending on your whole family's needs. Everyone who posts here is reflecting different experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, don't know if you are wed to Vienna. I can tell you about our school Shrevewood Elementary in Falls Church. We will have a local level IV next school year. This is new to our school, but I can tell you from the work of the PTA and the Principal this is going to be a great program at our school.
Good luck on your decision.

Won't that gut the new AAP program at Lemon Road? I'd be worried about having a critical mass at either school. How do you decide where to go? It's not like either has a track record like Louise Archer.

I thought that the goal was to have local level IV at all schools. I wish our base school had that choice.

Anonymous wrote:OP, don't know if you are wed to Vienna. I can tell you about our school Shrevewood Elementary in Falls Church. We will have a local level IV next school year. This is new to our school, but I can tell you from the work of the PTA and the Principal this is going to be a great program at our school.
Good luck on your decision.

Won't that gut the new AAP program at Lemon Road? I'd be worried about having a critical mass at either school. How do you decide where to go? It's not like either has a track record like Louise Archer.